coding problem, help needed

[Andreas Jung]

Guy Van Rentergem <guy.van.rentergem at skynet.be> wrote:
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2qyHello people,
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2qyI'm fairly new to python and I need help with this problem.
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2qyI have a function which is reading a comma seperated string from a data
2qyfile:
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2qyc:\windows\desktop\terrain.ter,-10.0,-60.0,25.0,128.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
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2qy... open file then the code which gives problems
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2qyline=inffile.readline()
2qyL1=string.split(line,',')
2qypath=L1[0]
2qyvalue1=L2[1]
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2qy.....
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2qyThe values are ok but path is something like 'c:\\w'
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2qyWhat is going wrong?

Nothing :-) Because '\' acts as escape character the representation
for a backslash ist \\.  When you iterate byte by byte through path
you will see that there is really only one \ for every \ in the 
original string.

Cheers,
Andreas